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The British TV shows BANNED from streamers for controversial content - see every 'of its time' show with jokes too outrageous to broadcast

A number of popular British TV shows have been removed from streaming services due to their controversial content being too outrageous to broadcast. Matt Lucas said that some of his Little Britain sketches were 'wrong,' while Bo' Selecta star Leigh Francis saying he 'didn't realise how offensive' his work was at the time. Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Saturday …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Musicians deal with stingy streamers and AI threats, too. So why aren’t they on strike?

LA Times

Every day, Joey DeFrancesco hears from fellow musicians who see actors and screenwriters on strike, and wish they were on a picket line too. I get messages all the time asking ‘Why aren’t we on strike?’ ” said DeFrancesco, guitarist for the rock band Downtown Boys and co-founder of the activist nonprofit group United Musicians and Allied Workers. David Lowery, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The streaming model is cratering — here's how that's hurting actors, writers and fans

NPR

The streaming model is cratering — here's how that's hurting actors, writers and fans Enlarge this image toggle caption Eduardo Araquel/Paramount Eduardo Araquel/Paramount Ever had a show you've been meaning to watch disappear from a streaming service? Sponsor Message "I think streaming services have really forgotten that it takes a couple of seasons before a show gets big and picks …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Movie theaters and streamers may end up friends, after all

Associated Press

NEW YORK — After Ben Affleck and Matt Damon test screened their Nike drama “Air,” the film executives at Amazon Studios threw them a curveball. “We truly think that by putting it into theaters, you just can’t otherwise get that kind of word of mouth and press around it,” says Kevin Wilson, Amazon Studios and MGM theatrical distribution executive. But …

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1 year, 9 months ago

More people ditch TV for streamers; Dutch MPs want more investment in Dutch productions

NL Times

Fewer people paid for a television subscription last year, according to national research published by NMO on Wednesday. The increased popularity of streaming services has some Dutch members of parliament again calling for a law to force the services to invest in programming for the Dutch market. MPs want streaming services to invest in Dutch productions Members of the Tweede …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Netflix CEO Predicts Linear TV’s Demise Over Next ‘5-10 Years’

Wired

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. An amazing show, or a blockbuster movie can keep people around for a while, but as new stellar streamers like HBO Max and Disney+ enter the scene they become tempting alternatives. There’s also good-old linear TV, but …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Why Netflix and other streamers are cracking down on password sharing

LA Times

The website promised some tantalizing deals. A Citi analyst estimated streaming services lose roughly $25 billion a year due to password sharing, with Netflix representing 25% of that amount. We see a tipping point that is starting to have such an impact on subscriber growth, that it’s forcing the streamers to start taking action.” Hollywood Inc. Netflix steps up policing …

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3 years, 7 months ago

How female streamers are conquering Twitch

Live Mint

During a recent livestream, Maya Higa, 22, ate guacamole and chips while bantering with two of her housemates as they cooked quesadillas. She now has 420,000 subscribers on the livestreaming site owned by Amazon.com Inc., making her something of an anomaly in an industry known for male streamers playing video games and, to a lesser extent, female streamers nicknamed “hot-tub …

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